Chiradzulu District was not spared from the incessant heavy rains that hit southern Malawi last week and members of a charity Trust Fund from Chiradzulu West mobilized themselves to assist over a hundred households with relief items on Wednesday. The groupings treasurer Evelyn Mwapasa said initially the Trust Fund caters for paying school fees to […]
Amid power blackout woes in Malawi, chief executive officer for the embattled power utility company, Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) Evelyn Mwapasa, has been fired. According to an internal memo signed by Escom’s director of human resources and administration, D. Z. Namandwa, the new man at the helm is Dr. Alexion Chiwaya. Dr. Chiwaya […]
Malawians are made to live in blackout all day everyday as Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (ESCOM) board chairperson Dr. Perks Ligoya has messed up procurement of new heavy-duty generators that were expected to add about 80 megawatts to the national grid when he pushed for awarding of a $74 million contract to a South […]
Malawians should brace for frequent power blackouts as the Electricity Supply Corporation of Malawi (Escom) has said the country will continue to experience a shortfall in electricity supply, a development that will negatively impact on the business community and crucial services. In a letter addressed to the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry […]
President Peter Mutharika has come under intense fire for literary swallowing public service reforms when he appointed former reforms commissioner to be CEO for debt ridden and under performing power generating company, Escom. Evelyn Mwapasa is set to take up her new position at Escom on April 1. However, as a public service reforms commissioner, […]
Malawi government has appointed a new board chairperson of the Malawi Revenue Authority (MRA) who will oversee the tax collection body for the next three years. She is Evelyn Mwapasa. Bachelor of Accountancy, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Fellow of the Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) are some of Mwapasa’s qualifications. Mwapasa, […]
Moved by unavailability of professional accountancy qualifications from within Malawi, the Institute of Charted Accountants in Malawi (ICAM) is geared to introduce the professional qualification “Charted Accountant (Malawi)”- initialed “C.A. (M)” with the first examination sitting planned for December 2014 sitting. ICAM is the professional accountancy body in the country, arising from the merger of […]
An accounts expert Evelyn Mwapasa, former consultant for the World Bank, has been appointed as new Chief Executive Office of the Council of the Society of Accountants in Malawi (Socam) effective April 1, 2013. She replaces Daniel Dunga and would bring a lot of experience having worked in a number of high profile jobs such […]